ACMI Stories & Ideas

In this podcast we investigate the new Golden Age of Scandinavian television, from Forbrydelsen to Bron/Broen, and the popular US remakes that followed in their wake. Recorded: 25 November 2014

The Foundry brings together some of the best VFX studios in Australia and abroad to articulate through specific case studies and demonstrations the endless possibilities that compositing, 3D, and animation software bring to a production. Recorded: 14 February 2015

The Foundry brings together some of the best VFX studios in Australia and abroad to articulate through specific case studies and demonstrations the endless possibilities that compositing, 3D, and animation software bring to a production. Recorded: 14 February 2015

The Foundry brings together some of the best VFX studios in Australia and abroad to articulate through specific case studies and demonstrations the endless possibilities that compositing, 3D, and animation software bring to a production. Recorded: 14 February 2015

Lannister, Baratheon, Stark, Tyrell, Targaryen. As another season of HBO’s smash hit comes to a close, Game of Thrones will be back in the House, as we take a trip back to Westeros to explore the evolution of TV’s most dysfunctional noble families. After exploring the first two brutal seasons of Game of Thrones back in 2012, our panel will revisit the beheadings, red weddings and royal undoings of the ensuing three seasons, and examine the epic fandom that has engulfed the show. With HBO’s groundbreaking announcement of the simultaneous global broadcasting of its fifth season, Game of Thrones cemented its place in TV history as a worldwide phenomenon. Back in 2012 when we first examined the show in an evening of discussion, debate and some rather saucy erotic fan fiction, the popularity of the program was steadily climbing. Families had done battle, houses had fallen, and a handful of eggs had spectacularly hatched. But a lot can happen in three seasons, particularly in Westeros. With new characters emerging and old characters losing battles – and potentially their heads – season five promises to offer viewers more dragons, more fights, more sex, more epic battles, and a lot more snow (both atmospheric and of the Jon variety). Our panel of guests including film critic and writer for Guardian Australia Luke Buckmaster, journalist, author and cultural critic Mel Campbell, writer Luke Ryan and writer and broadcaster Clementine Ford, strapped their armour on, sharpened their swords and returned to the Seven Kingdoms to discuss who is still in the running to win TV’s most cut-throat game of thrones. Recorded: 30 June 2015

The Foundry brings together some of the best VFX studios in Australia and abroad to articulate through specific case studies and demonstrations the endless possibilities that compositing, 3D, and animation software bring to a production. Recorded: 14 February 2015

The Foundry brings together some of the best VFX studios in Australia and abroad to articulate through specific case studies and demonstrations the endless possibilities that compositing, 3D, and animation software bring to a production. Recorded: 14 February 2015

Between 2003 and 2005 filmmaker David Hinton traveled 2,500 nautical miles on three expeditions aboard the schooner Nooderlicht filming artists, scientists and educators exploring the pristine environment of the High Arctic as part of the Cape Farewell project. The result was Art From a Changing Arctic. The film was screened at ACMI on 04 May 2015, at the conclusion of the film there was a Q&A session and discussion with David Buckland, Artistic Director, Cape Farewell (UK); Caroline Lambert, Climate and Environment Counsellor, Delegation of the European Union to Australia, Canberra; David Karoly, Professor of Meteorology and an ARC Federation Fellow in the School of Earth Sciences, Research Director, Climate and Energy at the EU Centre on Shared Complex Challenges, The University of Melbourne. The discussion will be moderated by John Wiseman, Deputy Director, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne. Recorded: 4 May 2015

Based on stories and characters from Thomas Harris’ much-loved book series, Hannibal has taken viewers on an often macabre and lurid psychological journey into the minds of two of Harris’ most interesting characters. Our panel of speakers examines the relationship between FBI special investigator Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and the infamous Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), and speculates about what could be in store for TV’s most beguilingly gruesome twosome. Recorded: 17 March 2015

The Foundry brings together some of the best VFX studios in Australia and abroad to articulate through specific case studies and demonstrations the endless possibilities that compositing, 3D, and animation software bring to a production. Recorded: 14 February 2015